Concrete poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 6395 Collections and/or Records:
Kykafrikaans: Page 1 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57731-10000982
Kykafrikaans: Page 4 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57733-10000985
Kykafrikaans: Page 5 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-56668-10000063
Scope and Contents
This is a page from the manuscript for the only typewritten, concrete poetry book published in South Africa. Boshoff achieved optical effects by weighting the density of typewritten letters in different portions of the poem through overtyping and creating diagonals by placement of the same letter in that direction. Includes an optical effects poem in a circular shape achieved by formating typewritten fragments in the manner of Houedard. Missing page 87. This work was purchased from Tony Zwicker after the Sackners met Boshoff in 1996 in Zwicker's Grammercy Park loft. It was exhibited at Miami Art Museum during the Global Conceptualism show. Boshoff in "word forms and language shapes 1975 - 2007" writes the following: The first edition of this work is an anthology of concrete poetry published by Uitgewery Pannevis, which was founded by Markus de Jong. During its short existence it focused on printing alternative Afrikaans literature. The book comprises black and white reproductions...
Dates:
1980
Kykafrikaans: Page 7 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57816-10001068
Kykafrikaans: Page 7A / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57734-10000986
Kykafrikaans: Page 8 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57844-10001096
Kykafrikaans: Page 10 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-61576-10004032
Scope and Contents
This poem consists of single words seemingly laid out in random positions and order. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1980
Kykafrikaans: Page 11 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57736-10000988
Kykafrikaans: Page 12 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57737-10000989
Kykafrikaans: Page 13 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57738-10000990
Kykafrikaans: Page 14 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57820-10001072
Kykafrikaans: Page 17 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57740-10000992
Kykafrikaans: Page 19 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57742-10000995
Kykafrikaans: Page 20 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57822-10001074
Kykafrikaans: Page 21 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57743-10000996
Kykafrikaans: Page 24 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57823-10001075
Kykafrikaans: Page 25 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57824-10001076
Kykafrikaans: Page 26 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57825-10001077
Kykafrikaans: Page 28 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57747-10001000
Kykafrikaans: Page 29 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980
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Identifier: CC-57826-10001078